"Arkin is a great fit for VMware and its customers as we look to accelerate our growth businesses including cloud management and network virtualization," said Ajay Singh, senior vice president and general manager, cloud management business unit, VMware.

"Arkin and VMware have been great partners and we're now excited to join the VMware family to take Arkin to the next level. Arkin delivers a new operations paradigm that has been built from the ground up for VMware NSX network virtualization and is fully aligned with the core NSX use cases of IT automation, security and application continuity." VMware is a part of EMC Corporation which is in the process of being integrated with Dell," said Shiv Agarwal, co-founder and chief executive officer, Arkin